Not many people know this but blizzard originally intended that DIablo would be made into a mmo, they even released very very early beta screens, it was scrapped very fast along with the diablo movie ><

Tabula rasa was a game with great combat, quests, and lore, but it's cancellation is not so much of a disappointment as it was an expectation.
The PvP was craptastic, and the combat was too exciting to be liked by the PvE crowd.

The biggest disappointment for me is Shadowbane. Even though the game lasted for 8 years (if you include the 2 years of beta), I still wish I could play for another 8. Greatest game ever.

Earth and Beyond

For me i had my hopes shatered with pirates of the caribbean.  I thought this game was going to be something then what it was.  I even tried pirates of the burning sea but it wasnt realy anything either.  Theres this little game no ones mentioned called FURY... and it was hyped big time... an that died a dreadfull death filled with puss cancers and leasions.  I mean i almost bought fury at target for 60 dollars.. then the next week i found out it was being pulled. 

I did have a god and heroes free pass here from mmorpg and i never did use it.  By the time i was geting ready to use it, the game had already been canceled..witch was kinda weired,, everyone geting all these free beta invites and then the game gets canceled..You figure if mmorpg was geting all this stuff for this great game,, that it was going to make it. 

Of games that had actually made it live... I think Earth and Beyond.  Simply because it had the most unique crafting system at least in my opinion.  Tearing things apart to learn how to make them with the risk of failure and the item being destroyed.  Even the 3-way XP system of Explore, Combat and Trade (50 levels of each at launch for a total of 150 for all 3 maxed).  It was small, underfunded, underadvertised, unfinsihed etc yet it was again one of the more unique MMO's.

For MMO's that never made it to launch... hard to say.  UO being my favorite MMO I would have to think UO2 or UxO.

Yet before they took it down and you could still access the "Midgard" website I think that looked interesting.  This was an old (pre-dating DAoC old) MMO that Funcom was working on.

Once upon a time they had talked about Wing Commander Online or Privateer Online...   Privateer could be a very interesting MMO IP.  This was before EvE was around... now I'd say EvE is more or less .. that game.

Mythica actually looked interesting... I was suprised MicroSoft backed down.  They could have bankrupted Mythic in court dragging this out.

To be honest the only thing that disappoints me is that it might be possible one of the many MMO's that was canned would have been "the one" and we will never know...  It might have been the one chance to really have "your game".  You'll just never know...

Originally posted by blueturtle13

If I may add another. I think Hero's Journey is one as well. I know they say it will be released but I doubt it ever will.

Well why spend money on a mmo that may or may not do well when you can perfect a engine that has pretty much become the "thing" for new mmos.

Earth and Beyond:

This was the first MMO that I ever played and spent many an hour travelling the universe. I especially liked the 3 tiered skill set. It was an amazing game that went downhill just as soon as EA bought out the company. I keep hoping that another space MMO will be released that gives me the same satisfaction that this game did.

Was gonna be shadowbane,  slight chanced that might be saved though.  And would say wish but i did not learn about it till it was canceled.

Gods and Heroes.  I was in the beta before they closed it and the game was really looking nice, even with the bugs.  I loved the minion setup and that you could select your own god.  The monsters had their own special moves also which was pretty cool.  I remember a squid thing knocking my character on the ground and beating on her chest with it's tentacles!  Pretty shocking at first.  It's a shame Perpetual just couldn't handle MMO development.  I still have hopes that someone buys the rights to the game.

Mythic, I think it was named, would be my next choice, and oh another MMO that got canceled called Dragon Empires looked way cool as well.  I'm just a big fan of mythology and fantasy.  :)

Now if someone would just pick those MMOs up and make an Avatar MMO I'd be set!  I could see Avatar making a really fun PvP game, if done right.

Tabula Rasa.

I still smell something fishy between Garriot and NCSoft that really killed this game, and not just in its cancel one week after garriot supposedly got fired.

Originally posted by Arndur

Originally posted by blueturtle13

If I may add another. I think Hero's Journey is one as well. I know they say it will be released but I doubt it ever will.

 

Well why spend money on a mmo that may or may not do well when you can perfect a engine that has pretty much become the "thing" for new mmos.

True enough =/  Seems they have been working on this game for years now though. Other than working on it to sell the engine you think they would want to pimp the engine even more through their own game...like Epic does or Crytek does. Make their game the showcase for the engine. But after Bioware announced they were using it for their mmo I guess that was all other developers needed to see. =/ Been following it for so long.

Tabula Rasa. Great Dynamic World and so much potential wasted...

Hmm games that should have been but never were eh... i can list quite a few

Boundless Adventures - never made it out of the dev stage

Dragon Empires - never made it past closed beta

Legends of Saryia - mm dont rem if this 1 ever made it out of alpha

Legendary Adventures- alpha i think b4 it was canceled

Mourning- never made it past beta

Dawn - never made it out of dev stage

Trials of Ascension- dont think this 1 made it out of dev either maby an early alpha stage

Wish - never made it past beta

UXO- dont rem if this 1 got to beta or not

Probably a few more that i have forgotten as i watch and play almost every mmo that peaks my interest. These were the let downs though.

Tabula Rasa, it was a great game :(

Citizen Zero  (watch the video or at least part )

Looked good, prob would have sucked but never know now.

2 games.... Both EA.

Motor City Online- Great concept a hardcore muscle car racing game. 

Multi-player Battletech:3025 - Come on Battletech, not that darkage wizkid junk but BATTLETECH!    The beta was solid, the game had alot of support, but EA yanked the plug like it had the swing flu.

Tabula Rasa.

/sniff

Earth and Beyond, my first MMO.  And Auto Assault.  I loved that game.

And SWG...oh wait...that's still around...sort of.

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